June 29, 2019
Categories: Recipients, Restavek
According to research in Haiti, most parents do not want their children to leave them and live with some other family. A total of 2,078 families were interviewed, out of which 264 families gave reasons like their child being too young, having no proper understanding of the process and the host families not being able …
Perception of Parents on Their Children Living in Another Household Read More »
June 28, 2019
Categories: Culture, Poverty, Restavek
This is the latest installment of this blog highlighting the conditions of Child Domestic Workers in Haiti. In Haiti, many poor rural families hoping to provide a better future for their children send them to live as domestic servants in the homes of urban / semi-urban families. The majority of these children are girls and are …
Choices Parents Would Like to Make for Their Children Read More »
December 19, 2018
Categories: Ayiti Now Corp
Tags: Data, fafo, Restavek, Team, Visualizations
Haiti Now is a data-driven organization. We use data as critical evidence to help inform and influence our strategy and also to help formulate solutions for the Restavek problem. The Data Team at Haiti Now came into existence about a year ago. It started with the goal of learning more about the Restavek situation from …
December 19, 2018
Categories: Ayiti Now Corp
Tags: Data, fafo, geography, location, Restavek, Team, Visualizations
In Haiti, many rural families living in poverty will often send their children to work for and live with host families as domestic servants in exchange for better access to food, housing, and education. The host families, however, rarely hold up their end of the bargain. Instead, the children are exploited for their labor, working …
Location of the Restavek Respondents of the Fafo Survey Read More »
November 5, 2016
Categories: Access, Recipients, Restavek
Tags: 2002, fafo, law, Restavek, workers
In Haiti, like in many other developing countries, a formal education is highly valued. However, 61% of children between the ages of five and 17 are not educated or under-educated. This includes 37% who are enrolled in school but have fallen behind, 18% who never enrolled, and 6% who are dropouts. The prevalence of child …